Trump is found liable for fraud in New York civil case

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From here: Trump’s fraud trial rattled by witness’s possible perjury deal

'Arthur Engoron, the judge presiding over the case, sent an email to the trial’s lawyers on Monday asking them to give him more information about a supposed perjury deal that Allen Weisselberg, a former Trump Organization executive, is making with the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg.

Ex-Trump Org. CFO pleads guilty to perjury charges​

Under a deal with prosecutors, Weisselberg, a longtime confidant of Trump’s, has agreed to plead guilty to two (of five) counts, both relating to testimony he gave during a 2020 deposition with the attorney general’s office.

He is not pleading guilty to counts related to the testimony he gave last year during a civil fraud trial when he was on supervised release but he will admit the testimony was false.

It is the second guilty plea by Weisselberg, who in 2022 pleaded guilty to 15 counts of tax fraud and testified in the trial of two Trump Org. entities. Weisselberg was credited with giving truthful testimony and the entities were convicted and fined. The judge sentenced Weisselberg to five months in jail and supervised release. He served about 100 days in Rikers Island jail.

 

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Ex-Trump Org. CFO pleads guilty to perjury charges​

Under a deal with prosecutors, Weisselberg, a longtime confidant of Trump’s, has agreed to plead guilty to two (of five) counts, both relating to testimony he gave during a 2020 deposition with the attorney general’s office.

Ex-Trump company executive Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail​

Allen Weisselberg, who worked for the Trump family for a half-century before retiring recently, was taken into custody after a brief proceeding in New York Supreme Court and is expected to serve his sentence at Rikers Island, the city’s sprawling jail complex near LaGuardia Airport.

It was not clear whether Weisselberg will be called as a witness at Trump’s criminal trial scheduled to begin Monday in New York.

In 2023, Weisselberg served about three months of a five-month sentence related to the company’s tax fraud case.